October 2020 Development Recap — PoS and the Road to Mainnet

As of 2022 Descartes has now been renamed as Cartesi Compute.

Development Updates

During the past month, the team fulfilled its Q3 milestone, delivering the Proof of Stake prototype, mining on testnet, as well as the GPRC for upcoming Roll-Ups. For more details, make sure to check our official Q3 Milestones announcement.

We are now advancing towards the mining on mainnet launch. We are excited to announce our “CTSI Mining — How it Works” article in preparation for the Q4 launch. We will be releasing several events around this upcoming launch as we get closer, so stay tuned if you’re interested in participating in Cartesi’s PoS v0.

Aside from preparing for the mining on Mainnet, there are multiple development fronts:

• Auditing and completion of our DelayedWithdraw.sol contract. The mine transfer has now been completed as outlined in our most recent transparency report;
• Ongoing development of a cloud infrastructure that provides convenience to developers, validators and users of Cartesi’s network. More information on this will come later on;
• Adding multi-party support to Cartesi Compute nodes. With that, Cartesi Compute can run computation with multiple validators, as opposed to the first version, where Cartesi Compute allowed only for one claimer and one challenger;
• On the infrastructure side, some of the most noticeable progress involved the redesigning of the Dispatcher module and improvement of the dehashing device implementation with a modified ROM to support ctsi-dhd on the device tree;
• Continued progress on Cartesi Explorer’s MVP;
• And finally, we are working on a new game with one of our partners!

We highly encourage any developer willing to use or collaborate with Cartesi to contact us on Discord. We will be more than happy to offer you guidance.

Cartesi’s Ecosystem Links:

Website: https://cartesi.io

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cartesiproject

Telegram: https://t.me/cartesiproject

Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Pt2NrnS

GitHub: https://github.com/cartesi